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Playbills.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Don B. Wilmeth collection on theater

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: MS Thr 2040
Overview:

Contains much of theater scholar Don B. Wilmeth's personal collection of theatrical materials, including autograph letters, playbills and posters, prints and a painting, and further ephemera, mostly dating from the nineteenth century.

George Holland papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1786
Overview:

Papers of English American stage actor, George Holland, including correspondence, an autobiography, playbills, and contracts.

Harvard Theatre Collection of benefit playbills

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: MS Thr 619
Summary:

Playbills from benefit nights for various beneficiaries held at theaters in London and provincial towns.

Harvard Theatre Collection of Shakespeare playbills

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: MS Thr 800
Summary:

Approximately 500 playbills from primarily British theaters for Shakespeare plays.

Paul Epstein collection of New York (N.Y.) playbills, George Balanchine research material, and sheet music covers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: MS Thr 1082
Summary:

Includes periodicals with articles on Balanchine and 16 matted sheet music covers.

Stevens Advertising Associates printed theatrical material

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2011MT-57
Summary:

Playbills, press kits, business files, handbills, and videocassettes for Broadway Across America-Boston, the Wang, Shubert, Majestic, Huntington, and ART theaters.

The Lotta Crabtree Will Case

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601644
Overview:

Materials relating to legal action resulting from the probate of the will of Lotta Crabtree, actress, of Boston. Papers assembled and used by the defense (special administrators of the estate) comprise the bulk of the collection.